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Teresa Healy
Teresa Healy

New York Times, Monday, August 1, 1977

44-Across : Compartment

Author:
Teresa Healy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { B J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Teresa Healy has 3 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,215
Across
1
Twist; swerve : SKEW
5
D-Day craft : LSTS
9
Substances used by etchers : ACIDS
14
French composer : LALO
15
Roman emperor : OTHO
16
Young hog : SHOAT
17
Collection from a congregation : OFFERTORY
19
Bright : SUNNY
20
Enjoy Jay Peak : SKI
21
Yeats's homeland : EIRE
22
Staple in the Far East : RICE
23
Former frog, possibly : HANDSOMEPRINCE
28
Zwei's precursor : EIN
29
Uris : LEON
30
Cooked in hot fat : FRIED
33
State flower of Tenn. : IRIS
34
Eliza crossed it : ICE
37
Name to guess : RUMPELSTILTSKIN
41
Elec. word : AMP
42
Undiluted : NEAT
43
Leading the pack : AHEAD
44
Compartment : CELL
45
Emulated Horner : ATE
46
Heroine's tormentor : UGLYSTEPSISTER
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___ Domini : ANNO
54
Playing piece for Fischer : PAWN
55
Spanish cheer : OLE
56
Unreliable people : LIARS
58
Softens : MITIGATES
60
Kind of singer : TORCH
61
Rock of ___ : AGES
62
Narrow route : LANE
63
Buhlwork or mosaic : INLAY
64
Underling of 1066 : ESNE
65
Punctured tire : FLAT
Down
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Slog through mud : SLOSH
2
"Amerika" author : KAFKA
3
Puckish or dwarfish : ELFIN
4
Misfortune : WOE
5
Item for hair care : LOTION
6
Tempest : STORM
7
Housebuilders : THREELITTLEPIGS
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Kind of sauce : SOY
9
Beast of burden : ASS
10
Dairymaid's device : CHURN
11
Column style : IONIC
12
Ball : DANCE
13
Eyelid disorder: Var. : STYE
18
Medical-training period : RESIDENCY
24
Like most artesian wells : DEEP
25
Prefix for meter or scope : PERI
26
Stir up : ROIL
27
Activity on Inauguration Day : INSTATING
30
Angelico, e.g. : FRA
31
Jamaican export : RUM
32
Young scamp : IMP
34
Nickname for D.D.E. : IKE
35
Hush-hush org. : CIA
36
Pass-catcher : END
38
Sediment : LEES
39
Season : SALT
40
"The Liner ___ a lady" : SHES
45
___ as an owl : ASWISE
46
Sherman's side : UNION
47
Contort; distort : GNARL
48
Spanish poet-dramatist : LORCA
49
Eucharistic plate : PATEN
50
Add up : TOTAL
51
Mezzo-soprano Obraztsova : ELENA
52
Freshly adjusted : RESET
53
Height: Prefix : ALTI
57
Reserved : SHY
58
West : MAE
59
Landon : ALF

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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